Alan Dennis (scientist)

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The Baron of Cowie
Born
Alan Robert Dennis

1960 (age 6364)
NationalityCanadian, American
TitleProfessor Baron
Awards Association for Information Systems LEO Award (2021)
Academic background
EducationB. Computer Science, 1982, Acadia University
MBA, 1984, Queen's University
PhD, Business Administration, 1991, University of Arizona

Alan Robert Dennis, Baron of Cowie (born 1960) is a Canadian-American scientist specializing in Information Systems and nobleman in the Baronage of Scotland. [1] He is a professor and holds the John T. Chambers Chair of Internet Systems at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University [2] .

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Education and employment

Dennis earned his Bachelor of Computer Science from Acadia University in 1982, his MBA from Queen's University in 1984, and his PhD in Business Administration from the University of Arizona in 1991. [3] He began his academic career as a professor at The University of Georgia and moved to Indiana University in 2000, [4] where he continues to work as a leader in Information Systems research.

Dennis has authored over 150 research papers, [5] chaired 16 dissertations, and co-authored four books. His research explores team collaboration, the spread of fake news on social media, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence. [6]

Research

Dennis's research focuses on team collaboration, media synchronicity, the spread of fake news, and artificial intelligence.

Teams and Group Support Systems

"Information technology to support electronic meetings" - MIS Quarterly

"Electronic meeting systems" - Communications of the ACM 34 (7), 40-61

"Understanding fit and appropriation effects in group support systems via meta-analysis" - MIS Quarterly 167-193

Media

"Media, tasks, and communication processes: A theory of media synchronicity" - MIS Quarterly 575-600

"Testing media richness theory in the new media: The effects of cues, feedback, and task equivocality" - Information Systems Research 9 (3), 256-274

Fake News

"Fake News on Social Media: People Believe What They Want to Believe When it Makes No Sense at All" - MIS Quarterly 43 (4), 437

"Says who? The effects of presentation format and source rating on fake news in social media" - MIS Quarterly 43 (3), 1025-1039

"Lying for viewers: Commingled partisan falsehoods increase viewing and sharing of news media" - MIS Quarterly 48 (2)

Artificial Intelligence

"Less Artificial, More Intelligent: Understanding Affinity, Trustworthiness, and Preference for Digital Humans" - Information Systems Research

"AI agents as team members: Effects on satisfaction, conflict, trustworthiness, and willingness to work with" - Journal of Management Information Systems 40 (2), 307-337

Books

Dennis has authored several influential books:

Business Data Communications and Networking (14th Edition)
Systems Analysis and Design (8th Edition)
Systems Analysis and Design: An Object-Oriented Approach with UML (6th Edition)
Networking in the Internet Age

Career and Personal Life

Dennis was born and raised in Prince Edward Island, Canada. In 1978, he moved to Wolfville, Nova Scotia, to attend Acadia University, where he earned his Bachelor of Computer Science in 1982 [7] . He then moved to Queen’s University and received a Master of Business Administration in 1984 [8] .

From 1984 to 1987, he taught as a Lecturer at the Queen’s School of Business. Dennis moved to Tucson, Arizona, to pursue his PhD in Business Administration (specializing in Management Information Systems), which he earned in 1991 from the University of Arizona [9] .

In 1991, Dennis joined the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia as an Assistant Professor, later becoming Associate Professor in 1995 and Professor in 1999. In 2000, he moved to Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business, becoming the first John T. Chambers Chair of Internet Systems [10] .

Dennis married Eileen Robichaud in 1982; they divorced in 2004 [11] . He married Kelley McNamara in 2010; they divorced in 2015 [12] . He received the title Baron of Cowie in 2020 [13] following the death of his father, G. Douglas Dennis [14] [15] . In 2022, he married DeVon Rightley-Tucker, Baroness of Cowie [16] .

Dennis has one son, Alexander (Alec) Dennis, Younger of Cowie (born 1993) [17] , who is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at Iowa State University [18] .

Awards and recognition

AIS Fellow (2012): Recognized by the Association for Information Systems (AIS) for significant global contributions to Information Systems. [19] LEO Award (2021): Recognized for lifetime exceptional achievement in Information Systems, named for the world's first business computer (Lyons Electronic Office). [20] Dennis was ranked among the top 1% of the most influential researchers globally across all scientific disciplines in 2021. [21] [22]

Related Research Articles

An information system (IS) is a formal, sociotechnical, organizational system designed to collect, process, store, and distribute information. From a sociotechnical perspective, information systems comprise four components: task, people, structure, and technology. Information systems can be defined as an integration of components for collection, storage and processing of data, comprising digital products that process data to facilitate decision making and the data being used to provide information and contribute to knowledge.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Baronage of Scotland</span> Scottish baronage, and a list of barons and their baronies

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The Association for Information Systems (AIS) is an international, not-for-profit, professional association for scholars of information systems that was established in 1994. The association publishes journals, organizes conferences, and provides a forum for information systems professors and managers. It has members in more than 100 countries.

The journal of Management Information Systems(JMIS) is a top-tier peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes impactful research articles making a significant novel contributions in the areas of information systems and information technology. Established in 1984, the current editor-in-chief of JMIS is Vladimir Zwass. JMIS is published by Taylor & Francis in print and online.

Wynne W. Chin is C. T. Bauer Professor of Decision and information Sciences at the University of Houston. Wynne is the second most cited researcher in his college and in the top ten in his university. He received his Ph.D. In Computers and Information System and an MBA from the University of Michigan, an MS in chemical and biomedical engineering from Northwestern University, and an AB in biophysics with a minor in philosophy from UC Berkeley. Before joining the University of Houston faculty in 1997, Wynne taught at the University of Calgary and Wayne State University. In addition, he holds visiting status at the School of Information Systems, Technology and Management at The Australian School of Business, UNSW.

Nereu Florencio "Ned" Kock is a Brazilian-American philosopher. He is a Texas A&M Regents Professor of Information Systems at Texas A&M International University.

Varun Grover is an American Information systems researcher, who is the George & Boyce Billingsley Endowed Chair and distinguished professor at the Walton School of Business, University of Arkansas. From 2002-17, he was the William S. Lee Distinguished Professor of Information Systems at Clemson University, where he taught doctoral seminars on methods and information systems. He is consistently in the top 3 IS researchers in the world. He has an h-index of 100, among the top 5 in his field Grover has around 52,000 citations in Google Scholar and over 13,900 citations in Web of Science.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ping Zhang (information scientist)</span> American computer scientist

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Arun Rai</span>

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Henri Barki is a Turkish-Canadian social scientist, and was a Canada Research Chair at HEC Montréal, Université de Montréal until he retired in 2017. He was given the title of emeritus.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Michael Rosemann</span>

Michael Rosemann is a German information systems researcher and professor at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. He is currently the director of the Centre for Future Enterprise at QUT. His research interests include revenue resilience, business process management, trust management and innovation systems. Rosemann is also the honorary consul of the Federal Republic of Germany in Southern Queensland.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mary Lacity</span> Blockchain researcher

Mary Cecilia Lacity[1] is a David D. Glass Chair and a distinguished professor of Information Systems at the University of Arkansas, Sam M. Walton College of Business.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wolfgang Ketter</span>

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William Richard King, the thirty-sixth President of The Institute of Management Sciences (TIMS), is a retired American university professor who studied and researched management science and information systems at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. He was the Founding President of the Association for Information Systems, co-founder of the International Conference on Information Systems, and the founder of the America's Conference on Information Systems. He has an h-index of 77 when including all of the fields in which he has published, according to Google Scholar.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Baron of Cowie</span> Title of nobility in the Baronage of Scotland

Baron of Cowie is a title of nobility in the Baronage of Scotland.

Ann Majchrzak is an American academic. She is a Professor of Digital Innovation in the Department of Data Sciences and Operations within the USC Marshall School of Business. Majchrzak holds the USC Associates Chair in Business Administration.

Suzanne Rivard is a Canadian information technology scientist. She is a Full Professor in the Department of Information Technology at HEC Montréal.

Yolande E. Chan is a Jamaican-Canadian information systems professor and education administrator. Chan joined the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University as Dean and James McGill Professor in August 2021. Her research focuses on innovation, knowledge strategy, digital strategy, and business-IT alignment. Chan has long been a champion for women and under-represented groups in academia. In her role as Dean of the Desautels Faculty of Management, she has made equity, diversity and inclusion a major strategic priority.

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